the entire concept of battlestar galactica is so fucking raw, and several episodes are different and yet perfectly connected thinkpieces on the existential crisis of being hunted through space by a nigh invincible, immortal, ever-evolving enemy and yet they still manage to balance out the existential dread with the literal PERFECT amount of living shitposts and fuckery and softness among the crew.

like adama’s plotting out rendezvous points to avoid being picked off one by one by the cylons while tigh halfway through eating adama’s pasta is like “okay but um were you gonna fucking eat this or???” sharon lands her ship in the hangar bay and starts yelling at the chief about how the ship is so broken she could have died out on her mission then immediately proceeds to make out with him like “that ship is still broken though lol.” the galactica loses track of a civilian ship and thus 1/50th of all remaining humans and baltar is like deliriously talking to himself about god and babies because everyone’s on their 5th day straight of getting no sleep. like?? what a perfect show!??!??!

people talk about how things like seinfeld and supernatural are reoccurring references on this site, nobody talks the constant presence of 1960s pop rock band the monkees. I'll be looking at a post that seems to have absolutely no relation to the band the monkees, and there's a tag that's like "this is so peter tork coded". and you know what. I don't know anything about the monkees, maybe that is total torkcore.

Alright. I have finally built up the courage to watch this. Hopefully it doesn’t ruin my entire day (and my love for Riker).

god i hate this already

oh my god is Riker just gonna be there the entire episode? just looming?

also since this is just some holodeck program Riker downloaded, we can basically just write this all off as historically inaccurate bullshit, right? 

nope. nope. nope. not listening. lalalalalala

lol fuck this

i hate this i hate this i hate this. this was the dumbest way to kill a character off. so fucking arbitrary and very easily avoidable--like, they could’ve beamed in security to that location? trip, the brilliant engineer, could’ve figured out a way to get the plasma conduit to explode on the intruders and also not in his face? and you’re telling me there’s nothing Phlox could have done?? THEY LITERALLY MEGA-VIOLATED MEDICAL ETHICS AND CLONED HIM IN SEASON 3 JUST TO KILL OFF THAT CLONE TO HARVEST THE BRAIN TISSUE and you’re telling me there’s nothing they could do???

FUCK. THIS. SHIT.

GOOD RIDDANCE, HOLODECK. 

dear god i managed to finish it. I hated every fucking moment of that.

except for this moment. this moment was nice. -->

but every other second of that episode? trash. throw it in the dumpster and set it on fire. historically inaccurate shit holodeck program. Trip lived a long, happy life with his wife T’pol and their children Lorian and Elizabeth. The end.

*hands the OP the Pocket novels, some calming fanfic, and a Trip's Not Dead t-shirt*

You're just going through the five stages of TATV grief, my friend. It's perfectly natural. Can I get you some tea?